The National Panel for Registration have written to local authorities advising them to pause in their preparations for the new Medical Examiner system that the Department of Health and Social Care are planning to introduce in April 2019. The text of the message to local authorities from the National Panel for Registration is available here.

Cremation (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017The above Regulations have been published and come into effect on 6th April 2018. Revised application forms are included as is a provision for electronically signing and submitting Forms. The Ministry of Justice will be preparing guidance for circulation in early March 2018. Copies of the amended forms 1 - 3 can be found in the Schedule to the new regulations on the MoJ website.